Experiment name: SCM2 Principal Investigator: E.Fahrbach Affiliation: Alfred Wegener Inst. Mooring name: AWI232-3 Mooring position: 68.995 deg S, 0.062 deg W Instrument depth: 1802 meters Seafloor depth: 3450 meters Times: 2000 30 Apr 1998 to 1400 19 Jan 1999 Time increment: 120 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM parameter min mean max stddev days speed (cm/sec) 0.06 4.52 14.10 2.29 263.83 dir (deg true) 0.90 257.24 359.50 53.00 263.83 u (cm/sec) -13.85 -3.82 8.42 2.61 263.83 v (cm/sec) -9.97 -0.16 6.39 2.07 263.83 temp (deg C) -0.05 0.01 0.07 0.02 263.83 pressure (db) 1800.30 1806.96 1842.50 7.78 263.83 salinity (psu) 34.62 34.67 34.74 0.02 263.83 The pressure record contains evidence that the mooring may have been moved or may have slid to a location approximately 14 meters deeper on 11 Oct 98. Similar anomalies are present in the pressure and current records from the other instruments on this mooring.
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